Promote all errors to rlang errors — with

with_abort() promotes conditions as if they were thrown with abort(). These errors embed a backtrace. They are particularly suitable to be set as parent errors (see parent argument of abort()).

with_abort(expr, classes = "error")

Arguments

expr	An expression run in a context where errors are promoted to rlang errors.
classes	Character vector of condition classes that should be promoted to rlang errors.

Details

with_abort() installs a calling handler for errors and rethrows non-rlang errors with abort(). However, error handlers installed within with_abort() have priority. For this reason, you should use tryCatch() and exiting handlers outside with_abort() rather than inside.

Examples

# with_abort() automatically casts simple errors thrown by stop()
# to rlang errors. It is is handy for rethrowing low level
# errors. The backtraces are then segmented between the low level
# and high level contexts.
f <- function() g()
g <- function() stop("Low level error")

high_level <- function() {
  with_handlers(
    with_abort(f()),
    error = ~ abort("High level error", parent = .)
  )
}